title: Evaluating the usability of a free electronic health record for training.
abstract: The United States will need to train a large workforce of skilled health information technology (HIT) professionals in order to meet the US government's goal of universal electronic health records (EHRs) for all patients and widespread health information exchange. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act established several HIT workforce educational programs to accomplish this goal. Recent studies have shown that EHR usability is a significant concern of physicians and is a potential obstacle to EHR adoption. It is important to have a highly usable EHR to train both clinicians and students. In this article, we report a qualitative-quantitative usability analysis of a web-based EHR for training health informatics and health information management students.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Program, University of West Florida's School of Allied Health and Life Sciences, Pensacola, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hoyt
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Adler
authors.forename: Brandy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ziesemer
authors.forename: Georgina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Palombo
mesh_terms: D057171:American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: clinical informatics; education; electronic health records; health informatics; health information management; medical informatics; students; usability